2026-07-19

hi! exams are over and i've switched gears to summer break. i've mostly been working so far, but i have had some interesting things that i thought i'd share :)

• my exams went well enough, and i have passed my first year successfully. the thing that scared me most was a requirement for me to pass nine out of the twelve courses or risk being banned from uni for three years; thankfully i passed my ninth. next year is going to be a lot less stressful, i hope!
• yesterday i went to London, to visit a friend from back home who's there on a longer trip. together we went to Royal Hospital Chelsea, the final resting place of Margaret Thatcher. we explained to the staff that my friend is on a trip to visit as many notable graves as he could on his trip, and they explained that the only people they let in are her close family… but that they were going to grant us an exception :D i did not get the chance to piss on her grave, but the fact they let us in when we weren't supposed to be there, the fact i stood mere centimetres from her ashes, looking queer as hell, the fact that we got a special tour of the place from the groundskeeper, despite being exactly the type that they'd want to keep out — i think that's protest enough :)
• me and my lovely fiancée made a timeline of Israeli television broadcasting, a subject i'm deeply autistic about. we worked on it for a few days, making sure we got in all the relevant facts and that all of them were correct, and i'm really proud of the result. there are so, so many things we left out, but that i'd be overjoyed to expand on!
• in tilde.town news, we just released the ninth edition of our zine! i have a couple of works in there, mostly in the cookbook section. i'm also in early stages of planning the next TOWN CON…

i've been thinking a lot lately about the theme for next year. the past year i was concerned with moving out of Israel: now that i've been here for almost an entire year, i consider that a success. i feel comfortable and welcomed here. for my third year, i hope to have family; but this upcoming one is unclear, and i don't want to spend it waiting for it to end. perhaps this is the year of community: finding it, fostering it, building it. for now, i'm going to enjoy my summer.

2026-06-06

it's been a while! i've been too busy having an interesting life to document any of it ^^; here are the highlights.

• my girlfriend was over! we had a lot of fun together, and i already miss her a lot. we travelled quite a lot, and i took my camera — there's a new page for my favourite photos taken on the trip.
• i was reintroduced to the concept of hackerspaces after being invited to one in Amsterdam, and i think they might be for me after all. i'll go check the one in Eindhoven eventually. eventually…
• i wrote a few blog posts over the last few months. first, a writeup about how stupid VS Code is and how much of a pain it's been for us over the past year. second, some musings about the most okay Radiohead album, and most interestingly, a guest entry from dolly, who wanted to author some exceedingly silly empty spaces fiction.
• over at tilde.town, we've had an eventful few weeks with all of the new linux vulnerabilities, but we are keeping our head up and having a fun time regardless. i revived an old tradition that we had before i joined, called #fridaypostcard! it's been a lot of fun.
• work is going well; i should really get around to studying more.

see ya next decade

2026-04-05

hello! i'm starting to think the promise of twice-monthly updates is hard to keep now that i have two jobs and university. i might change it if i feel it's becoming unsustainable. that's not to say i've not done anything noteworthy, though!

• been listening to SCRAPYARD by Quadeca a lot recently. i should listen to Ben's proper albums at some point. i've also been showing a lot of friends some stuff by the Strokes.
• this website now has a dark mode! i made it listen to prefers-color-scheme, which is unfortunate because i do like the light mode better on this website. oh well.
• i also revamped our tilde town homepage the other day, based on some doodles i made while high. i think it came out very nicely.
• i also also added some badges to this website, after not really knowing where to put them for a while. i've been enjoying making pixel art lately: on the sickos.net forum i've made a bunch of badges and some userbars as well! the town rack one was made by me and my friend ~dzwdz, based on the real-life town server rack.
• exams are Coming Up, and i am Hopeful about them, but they are eating at me a bit. thankfully after this stressful week i'm gonna be smooth sailing for pretty much the end of the year, and some nice and exciting things are on the horizon :)

2026-03-04

hello! i once again have some news.

• first and most important: names! we now have a common name for all of us, Isabela Vidart. you can check out the full list of member names here. aoife is still around (hi), and this website is still mostly mine, so nothing here should change, but i'm slowly going to transition online accounts and work etc. to the shared name.
• i moved out of the old place and into a new place. it's empty right now, but it's closer, bigger and cheaper. i'm enjoying my time here and my friends have been immensely helpful in moving <3
• my parents were supposed to come over for a bit, but that didn't end up happening. despite it being for dumb reasons, i think a silver lining is that i'd be even more stressed and anxious than i already was. oh well.

no war but class war

2026-02-11

hello! it's been a bit. i've been very busy this past month and a half and i wanted to wait until a calmer time before enumerating everything i've done!

• i'm getting better at meeting new people! late last year i was invited to Christmas dinner at a new friend's place, and i had a grand old time meeting even newer friends. last saturday i met up with some townies and we ate at a cute anarchist café where i exchanged contacts with a few nice folks there. i'm slowly getting the hang of this!
• i wrote a piece about how Israel is making me feel right now. i was told that it's nice but that it's not clear who this is for, and that's because it's not really for anyone who isn't already at the same level of exasperation about all of this as me. a lot of similar drafts have not gone anywhere but at least this one is vaguely pointed.
• i was the number one listener to Hipercandombe by La Máquina last year on last.fm, and also to Move by Hadag Nahash :)
• i passed most of my exams! i'm finally ahead of the scary university requirements, and i'll be looking into moving into a place that isn't as out of the way or as cramped as my current dorm.
• i started a small football gemlog in the last few weeks of the 2025 regular season, where i cover some of the games that made me excited. now that the season's over, i'll have to find some new obsession…

i think that's all for now. life is picking up momentum and i'm doing okay.